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Comment by nachocheez

This is horde version. By the looks of it it has to be mage, warlock, or shadow priest staff.

Comment by Mobus

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THIS LOOKS AMAZING!

Any ideas about who this drops from?

EDIT: If it drops from the same boss as the Ally version drops from then its Valkyr sisters.

Comment by PoTz

Interesting side note, Illumination is also the name of a paladin spell, which was nerfed again this patch (3.2). Coincidentally this staff would have been perfectly itemised for a holy paladin, too bad we cant use staves :P

Comment by neversummer84

This is one of the first stave's I've seen that is good for shaman. No spirit!

Comment by pede

dropped from twin Valkyr Horde side earlier today. Replaced rapture with this. Play a holy priest and ill take huge crit and haste increases for a hit on my regen. Increase of about .5 crit and 3+ % haste. With the lose of spirit from rapture spellpower is about the same after gemming.

Comment by Copilot

This dropped for us today to, I (a fire mage) won it, replaced runescribe blade and ironmender. Its mostly a sidegrade to uld 25 normal mode weapons. Nicely itemized for everyone who can use a staff, especially since they basically just removed the spirit from Icecore Staff and converted it into crit.

Comment by Darkcanuck99

Such nice itemization on this item, I also picked it up last night (Lazor Turkey Druid). One of the few staves in the game that is competitive with 1H+OH for DPS casters.

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Comment by pandaren88

Just got this today :), on a side note enchanting +81 sp DOES NOT have the animation on it. Bummer :(

Comment by Mufuti

Got this last night, as a warlock. Itemization is pretty good but I would have clearly passed this to our moonkin or healers if I had not had the worst drop luck forever and were still running the badges offhand and turning tide.

Enchant animation is indeed missing which is very very sad :((

Comment by Safturento

I wasn't sure about this so I threw some numbers together. Here's what I got:

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Comment by Coandca

Picked it up tonight (9/3/09) from Twins. It's pretty awesome. Put a crit and a +9 spell power and +9 spirit gem in it. Way better then the Staff of Restraint.

Comment by neversummer84

your screen shot shows 3 gem slots, but the item here only shows 2

Comment by Blueacid

the normal mode one is ALMOST BiS for boomkins....the heroic mode one is for sure....I dont think any combination of 1H and OH can compete with this given all the haste and crit. You may get +40 more SP but this crit and haste more than makes up for it. Plus 69sp on the heroic one? Hard to top that

Comment by asloversgo

For a staff that's named Illumination, it doesn't glow even a little bit. A little disappointing.

Edit: What I actually meant was, it doesn't light up (or illuminate for that matter) the ground around you, or have a sort of bright effect.

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Comment by joshiki

I play a disc priest, sadly, i havent seen ANY healing offhands drop for over 4 months(was still using handbook of obscure remedies) picked up the spectral kris from the 5 man heroic. did the 10 man raid with my guild, saw it drop and i was the first to nab it..........havent gone back to 1h and oh since... i LOVE this staff. + the crit rating on it was a HUGE upgrade for disc......period.

month went by and now EVERY good healer in my guild has either this, or perdition. both r amazing but i still prefer illumination.

Comment by eaving

As of 3.3 the spell damage enchant (+83dmg) glow can now be seen! And its so pretty pretty! =)

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Comment by Reii

Did the effects on the staff itself (without any enchants) change recently?

The metallic parts used to be very shiny, and the gem on the top and bottom used to be animated, like lava flowing from top to bottom. When i looked at it again just now the effects were gone, and the staff had very low resolution textures on it (and yes i'm running the game with everything maxed).

Did anyone else notice this or is it a local problem?

Comment by Eido

This staves' unique model is ONLY available to the horde.All models will change to the alliance version (which looks nothing like this staff) if you change faction.